Margarethe von Trotta Movies

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets...

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

This documentary premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Explore the challenging world of the screenwriter with renowned industry writers.

Non-US directors speak about the idiosyncrasies of filmmaking in their respective countries. Because of the difficulty of financing, very few American...

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Rut...

The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of German...

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

Margarethe von Trotta, one of the few icons of German directing, internationally revered as a star director, celebrates her 80th birthday: her works a...

A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the Okto...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

A drama set in Cologne’s revolutionary circles of the late 1960s.

Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.